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Soccer was popularized in this city by the Scheutist (“SKOO-tist”) Tata Raphaël. This city’s namesake Brasserie was founded in 1923 to produce Primus beer. Didier Gondola noted how “coastmen” working in this city and a northern neighbor in the 1920s inspired a dandyistic subculture called La Sape (10[1])(“sahp”). This is the largest city where religions like Kimbanguism spread anticolonial resistance in the interwar period. In this city, bands like Franco’s OK Jazz popularized rumba music sung in Lingala. (10[1])A country governed from this city promoted the wearing of pagnes (“PAHN-yuhs”) and abacosts as part of authenticité (10[1])(“oh-tawn-tee-see-TAY”). A president who hosted the “Rumble in the Jungle” in this city changed its name from Léopoldville. For 10 points, name this city from which Mobutu Sese Seko governed Zaire (“zye-EER”), the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo? ■END■

ANSWER: Kinshasa [accept Léopoldville until read]
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